OOC: This is my first attempt at something like this and I'm sorry if this is a well-known point. If it isn't and it's completely wrong then correct me as you please. Just thought I'd give a go at this whole thing.


Author: Wolf Lesser-Dragon, Cleverman of the Ysmir Collective.

Scholars and Mages alike I present to you today the first of hopefully many dissertations and essays to come from our new and prestigious Ysmir collective. As it is the first study of our Institution I thought it'd be wise to begin with a paper on Ysmir, which I feel is appropriate since his name adorns our gates.

The Importance of Ysmir.

The famed "Dragon of the North" appears many times in Tamrielic history and usually as a bearded hero of Men who massacres the heathen Devils (Elves) in the name of Shor and sometimes even over the Cyrodiilic Akatosh. The first mention of Ysmir in recorded history is in the book "Before the Ages of Manhttp://www.imperial-library.info/content/ages-man by Aicantar of Shimerene and tells of a warrior-king-who-goes-by-many-names.


From that list 2 names immediately come to the fore: Ysmir and Pelinal Whitestrake, and because the author suggests that these 4 heroes are the same we can reason that Pelinal Whitestrake is Ysmir, Dragon of the North (although whether he was the first Ysmir is unknown). Pelin-El, as the Ayleids called him, was a hero of the early Cyro-Nords who helped lead the nascent Alessian Rebellion against the Ayleid oppressors. For these feats many a song was written about him by early Skalds and from the many fragments of these songs "The Song of Pelinal^{http://www.imperial-library.info/content/song-pelinal}" is formed. From this song we can gleam a lot about his relationship with the Gods which is very important in finding Ysmir's origin. The 2 main Divine (and most important) links to Pelinal is through the gods Shor and Aka. The link to Shor is shown within Volumes 4 and 5 which state that the Nord armies would say that they could see Shor in him and that some even called him a Shezzarine, an avatar of Shor. The connection to Aka-who-also-goes-by-names comes from a quote from Pelinal himself:



Here Pelinal is attesting that his madness is caused by Aka's madness (see Et'Ada, Eight Aedra, Eat the Dreamerhttp://www.imperial-library.info/content/etada-eight-aedra-eat-dreamer) and thus it links Pelinal to Aka.

The next Ysmir to appear in our histories is the Nord Hero-King Wulfharth of Atmora. Wulfharth, similarly to Pelinal, also had songs sung about his heroics and the most famous one (and a favourite of mine) is the "Five Songs of King Wulfharth^{http://www.imperial-library.info/content/five-songs-king-wulfharth}". Straight away in the song Wulfharth is bestowed with 2 titles; Shor's Tongue and Ysmir, Dragon of the North; and from therein it is plain to see that Wulfharth is an avatar of Shor. The final Ysmir I shall be discussing is Tiber Septim. It is common knowledge within the Empire that the Greybeards announced him to be Ysmir, Dragon of the North, during his rise to Empire and Godhood. We also know that Tiber Septim was a famed Dragonborn who relit the Dragonfires of Akatosh and wore the Chim El-Adabal of legend. Hence Tiber Septim is linked to Akatosh.
Unfortunately though both Wulfharth and Tiber are only connected to 1 out of the 2 Gods but the Arcturian Heresyhttp://www.imperial-library.info/content/arcturian-heresy written by Ysmir Wulfharth states that the God Talos was actually 3 different people Hjalti Early-Beard (the Dragonborn), Wulfharth of Atmora and Zurin Arctus (who is not important to Ysmir). Via this Heresy we can see that the Ysmir here is made up of two figures Wulfharth, who provides Shor and Hjalti (anon Tiber Septim), who provides Aka.

Therefore we now have 2 Ysmir's (Pelinal and Wulf-Hjalti) who have links to the Enantiomorphic duality of Lorkhan-Auriel, Shor-Aka and Rebel-King. Since the enantiomorph of Lorkhan-Auriel was a mirror-echo of Anu-Padomay, the figure of Ysmir is another subgradiated echo of the original duality. The result of the first duality was Aurbis and the result of the second was Mundus. The result of the third and final is decided through Ysmir:

YSMIR AS PELINAL: FAILED (for there was no duality)
YSMIR as TALOS: SUCCEEDED (for the duality was embraced)

The result of this union (which has echoed throughout unvoid since the first strokes) is Z, a state of true unity with the Godhead from where Amaranth, an even higher state of existence, can be reached.

Wolf Lesser-Dragon, C. of Y.C.,

This is certainly an interesting read. I personally have always thought Ysmir to be simply the Nordic name for Wulfharth, soul-son of Shor son of Shor, but this brings up a good point. Ysmir, is the name of the enatiomorph of [DRAGONASTIME] and [SERPENTASSPACE]s union.

Pelinal being referred to as Hans the Fox, Ysmir, et all, I assumed was them connecting him to being a Shezzarine, but could Pelinal be the Ysmir of the Songs of Wulfharth (or to be clearer, Pelinal and Wulfharth are obviously of the same soul, which is that of [SERPENTASSPACE], but I'm talking within the space of non-reincarnation)? Considering that Pelinal is oft thought as a dragonbending berserker from another time (either a whole other stream or just period), this theory makes sense.

Your theory of Ysmir's mythiplace helps the understanding that Tiber Septim's, who was both Dragonborn and a Shezzarine's place in divinity.

One question, how do you account for Wulfharth, Arctus, and Septim all being different men if Ysmir demands them all to be the same person, unless this Nu-Ysmir was meta-deifacted after his apotheosis (via Dragon-Breaking).

With regards,
Lucas Lysander, Whisperer of the College of Whispers (isn't that redundant)

To Lucas Lysander, Whisperer of the CoW.

I disagree that Ysmir is the name of the enantiomorph of the Dragon and the Snake. Rather I believe him to be the mortal personification of the enantiomorph. That is why is true name is Ysmir, Dragon of the North, Snake of the South. Although I apologise if that is what you meant.

In answer to your question I fully accept the fact that Hjalti, Wulfharth and Arctus were different men. They were all avatars of the Doom Drum and it was their prophecy to become Talos. In order to ascend, Arctus was not needed but as events played out he fitted in.

Thankyou for sharing your musings.

Wolf Lesser-Dragon, Cleverman.